Akpabio, Ekere, Etiebet Blame INEC For Loss In 2019 Elections

Bigwigs in the Akwa Ibom State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have blamed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for their loss at the 2019 presidential and governorship elections in the state.

Udom Emmanuel, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and incumbent Governor of the state, had defeated APC’s Nsima Ekere at the Saturday governorship election.

Although President Muhammadu Buhari of the APC was reelected for a second term, the PDP won the presidential election in the state.

Reacting to the defeat at a press briefing on Tuesday, Ekere, Senator Godswill Akpabio and Don Etiebet, said the refusal to redeploy Mike Igini, the Resident Electoral Commissioner, from Akwa Ibom, caused APC to lose in the state.

Ekere said Igini had, from the outset, shown through his utterances and actions he was determined to frustrate APC from winning elections in the state.

He said: “Now, interestingly, months before the elections, the APC family in Akwa Ibom State had expressed a lot of reservations about the character of Mr. Mike Igini. We had told the entire country and the world that Mr. Igini had shown the world that he was far from neutral in the way he was preparing for the elections and his utterances amongst his staff during training sessions and the things he said showed clearly that the man had a mindset that he had sworn severally that under his watch, the APC cannot win elections in Akwa Ibom state.

”All we wanted was for INEC to allow Akwa Ibom people decide for themselves who they wanted. It was not for INEC and the Resident Electoral Commissioner to come and decide for Akwa Ibom people which political party must win and which one must not win under his watch.

”He is supposed to be a neutral umpire. His (Igini) conduct and the things he has done both in the presidential and national assembly elections and the gubernatorial and state house of assembly elections have confirmed our fears. What we find so difficult to understand is why it was difficult for the INEC chairman and other authorities that be to listen to our pleas to change Mike Igini as the REC in Akwa Ibom.

”From 1999 when elections started again in this country, every election year, the REC and other staff of the INEC who have been resident in a state for a period of time were always moved around. That way, you are sure they will not allow their alliances and the friendships they have developed in the state within that period they have stayed to influence their conduct.

”Surprisingly INEC refused to do this. And this is the first time this is happening. They allowed Mr. Igini to frustrate the wishes of Akwa Ibom people. This is most unfortunate.”

Akpabio also attributed APC’s failure in the state to Igini, saying he found it hard to understand why his local government, Essien Udim, with voting strength of 105,000 was allotted just a bit above 6,000 votes.

He said the recent elections in the state were massively rigged by the PDP in connivance with INEC headed by Igini.

On his part, Etiebet accused INEC of changing the result before announcement and vowed that APC would challenge the result in court.

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I said it before INEC will only relate with NWC of a party, that if Obaseki want to win this game, he should fight it from the top, it is an Abuja game now, not Edo, is Abuja power brokers that holds security institutions in their hand, support you, you are good to go.

With the reasons given by NWC for their choice of primary, even PMB will agree with them, and if the power brokers now see obaseki want to scuttle the chances of APC in Edo by trying to stop their primary, and choose to stand with NWC, then Obaseki law wont stop them, because they will mount police in all the schools where the primary will hold.

My advise for Obaseki is to fight it from the top and change the mode of primary, though is getting late now. ... See MoreSee Less

GGO should remember is not the first Governor of Edo state and He is not going to be the last one, just accept every process and move on,if you're lucky enough you will definitely finish your desire eight years.

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